This ought to be fun and seperate the men from the boys in regards to the last option.
A fun game for Sunday after this weird week, inspired by a crazy ski masked rapper and a livestream I watched yesterday
I'll put 3 categories of villain for you to choose from, and also note I said favourite not greatest so you can't hide behind killcount, effectiveness or effect they still had on society now. In rising spiciness, the choices are:
Favourite gaming villain
Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media
Favourite historical villain
And since I suggested it I'll go first:
Gaming villain: Kane from C&C franchise, he was a mastermind with style and in the 3rd game played EVERYONE to win in the end
Media Villain: Demiurge from Overlord series, despite putting himself as number 2 behind the MC, the actual mastermind of the series, from 'happy farms' to his 'majestic weapon', you want evil look this guy up
Historical villain: I could be a wuss and say Vlad the Impaler or someone similar but let's go with someone very spicy, Shiro Ishii. Why him? Because after ALL the atrocities he committed for his 'scientific experiments' in Unit 731, he not only got away with it after the war but got military medals for it, pardoned and paid $200k by the Americans in exchange for his research and is responsible for a lot of the true vaccines we use today.
So anyone want to play?
I haven't read it in forever but he is like a Satan analogue. He wants to destroy creation to free himself but at the same time takes pleasure in inflicting suffering on the people to "punish" God for imprisoning him inside of it.
His motives drive the plot but he isn't really a character in the story other than appearing in climactic parts. Which is imo the best use of an overlord type villain.
The stories are good but there is some serious degeneracy in it, hard R for sure. The main character is an author insert and he is FUCKED UP. Its even worse for Donaldson's other series called "The Gap Cycle".
If you want to give him a try his book of short stories called "Reave the Just and Other Tales" is a good intro.
I'll have to see if I can borrow a copy somewhere, while I can read and watch dark subjects easily for research to understand a subject/figure, free time I have a limit on what I'll view for degeneracy.